New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) The BJP and JD(U) leaders, on Friday came down heavily on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for questioning the Election Commission’s neutrality in a social media post.CM Banerjee had, on Thursday, accused the poll panel of “summarily and arbitrarily” removing “more than 50 senior officials” ahead of the end‑April Assembly poll.BJP leader Dilip Ghosh, told reporters, “She doesn’t have the right to give opinion or question anything. Everybody kno…
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New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) BJP National Spokesperson C. R. Kesavan on Friday praised Congress MP Shashi Tharoor for his remarks on India’s position in the ongoing West Asia conflict, calling it a welcome shift in the Opposition’s stance.Reacting to Tharoor’s comments, Kesavan said, “Senior Congress leaders appreciating the balanced and nuanced foreign policy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the current global conflict is indeed a welcome change compared to Rahul Gandhi’s endless crit…
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her ninth Union Budget in Parliament, Opposition leaders on Sunday expressed strong disappointment over its provisions, contending that it fails to bring relief or happiness to the lives of ordinary citizens, as farmers, unemployed youth, and the common people have been largely neglected, and several states and key sectors ignored. Interacting with reporters, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said: “Nothing was mentioned about Ker…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) The BJP on Thursday criticised the Opposition for its disruptive conduct during President Droupadi Murmu’s address to Parliament at the start of the Budget Session, terming it a ‘shameful act’ and an affront to parliamentary decorum. Opposition lawmakers took to slogan-shouting while expressing strong disapproval to the newly enacted law ‘VB–G RAM G’ law, set to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).During the President’s …
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) After the Delhi High Court granted conditional relief to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar by suspending the life sentence awarded to him in the 2017 Unnao rape case, Samajwadi Party MP Rajeev Kumar Rai on Wednesday expressed concern, stating that “sometimes court decisions are difficult to understand”. A Division Bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar suspended Sengar’s life sentence and granted him bail during the pendency of his …